May 10, 2004

2PLM John Stark Associates

Volume 6 Number 20

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* Welcome * Welcome to this issue of 2PLM, an e-zine distributed every two weeks on a free subscription basis. * Product Lifecycle Management Interest Group (PLMIG) * The PLM Interest Group's first "PLM Top Ten" meeting will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 26 May. Details The concept of this meeting is based on that of the Oxford and Frankfurt meetings held in 2003 to set up the PLMIG. Those meetings were much appreciated by participants, particularly due to the deep involvement they enabled, and because of the intense group discussions that were generated as topics caught the imagination. It is rare that PLM professionals can meet under such circumstances, and one of the main benefits of the PLMIG in the short term seems to lie in the possibilities it offers for discussion, development and sharing of PLM ideas and contacts with other members. Because it is intended that everyone will have the opportunity to speak about their PLM issues, the size of the meeting is limited. The maximum number of presentations that will fit comfortably into a morning session is about 10, which limits the number of participants. In the afternoon the group will address together the main issues that have emerged in the morning as most important for the participants in that particular meeting. As each meeting will be small, several of them will be held. Over time, this will generate an overall "hit parade" of the PLM Top Ten issues. If you would like to participate in a PLM Top Ten Meeting, please contact Roger Tempest. PLM Open Days The PLMIG has partnered with Knowledge Futures to run four "PLM Open Days". The first two of these will be held in Benelux and Germany in June. Knowledge Futures is a European Institute for knowledge and services which enables organizations to collaborate effectively on product innovation. Supported by the European Commission and the UK government, it is a key promoter of Collaborative Product Development. The Open Days will be held as a roadshow, with 3 days at each location. The PLMIG presenters will be at the event location on the day before each Open Day to run an informal surgery. The Open Day will provide attendees with a clear and logical view of PLM that is easy for them to assimilate. It will also, via the Knowledge Futures involvement, take them through the issues and opportunities of Collaboration in Product Innovation. The morning session of each Open Day will be formal, with presentations covering the most important issues of PLM and product development, issues that organizations in all industries need to address. The afternoon session will be run for the benefit of the participants on the day, leading up to an open discussion on the issues that are of most interest to them. If you would like to participate in a PLM Open Day, please contact Roger Tempest. * To-PLM Map * We mentioned the "To-PLM Map" in the April 26, 2004 issue of 2PLM. Readers asked several questions about it. Here are some answers. Question : What does this map show? Answer : It positions PLM and other product-related activities / initiatives / acronyms (e.g., CAD, CPD, LCA) that may be of importance to a business. The positioning is based on span across functions (horizontal axis) and number of business components (e.g., processes, applications, standards, techniques) addressed (vertical axis). Product Lifecycle Management is in the top right cell as it addresses all product-related components across the entire lifecycle. Question : Which TLAs are most important? Answer : The map is not intended to show, or imply in any way, that one initiative / acronym is more important than another. More likely it's showing the complexity of an initiative. The complexity (and the likely difficulty of implementation) of an initiative increases going up the map, and moving from left to right across the map. For example, it will be more difficult to implement Product Data Management than to implement CAD because many more departments, organizations and people will be involved. It will be more difficult to implement PLM than Product Data Management because PLM doesn't just address product data, but also addresses processes (such as product development and modification processes), techniques such as TRIZ, organizational structures, and human resource issues. Question : Is PLM a process? Answer : No, it's the business activity of managing an organization's products all the way across their lifecycles in the most effective way. Question : Where is MPM? (similar question : Where is QFD?) Answer : MPM and QFD are included in the updated map below. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) involves several organizational entities, and addresses one component. Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) involves several organization entities and addresses several components. Question : Where is document management? Answer : "Document management (DM)" is vague. Probably it's running across several organizational entities. Enterprise Content Management (ECoM) would be more likely to address the entire product lifecycle. Engineering Change Management (EChM) also addresses the entire product lifecycle, but addresses more than one component. H Dept. Plan PDeM PLM n CPD; VA; MPM LCA; ISO 9/14000; EChM 1 CAD CAD/CAM; QFD; DM PDaM; ECoM 1 dept./ func. n depts./ funcs. Lifecycle To reduce confusion, Product Data Management is shown as PDaM and Product Development Management as PDeM. Product Data Management runs across the product lifecycle, and focuses on one component - data. Product Development Management addresses all components, and runs across several functions - but not the whole lifecycle. PLM articles We're always pleased to hear of articles about PLM that appear in other publications - and to inform readers about them. Thanks this week to Chris Horrocks, President, Strategic Advanced Management Systems, Inc. and Dennis Strader of Delphi Corp. for pointing out such articles. Chris Horrocks informed us of a 2-page article in the Financial Times of April 28. The headline was "Special Report : including a focus on PLM, the glue for design and development". Details Dennis Strader informed us of an article called "Just Another Acronym". Details These articles offer different views of PLM to those expressed in 2PLM.

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Universal Viewing and Mark Up from Spicer Corporation * PLMIG News : The PLM Top Ten * The PLM Interest Group (PLMIG) will run a one-day "PLM Top Ten" event in Zurich, Switzerland on May 26, 2004. Details. If you would like to participate, please contact Roger Tempest. Reference Section Follow the link for books in the Product Lifecycle Management Library Follow the link for books about .. CATIA .. MicroStation .. Pro/ENGINEER .. Six Sigma .. Unigraphics The World of Product Lifecycle Management Follow the links for : Vendors in the PLM World. Latest additions/modifications : Accept Software Corporation, IDe, Noesis Solutions, Open Text Corporation, Realization Technologies, Inc., SIGHT International PLM Solutions Ltd., Truereq and Zuken. PLM service providers. Latest additions/modifications : Integware and Siemens Business Services. General Interest Innovation Management Engineering Change Management Managing PDM in a changing environment Principles of Good Product Development 2PLM Media Sheet Advertisers of PLM-related systems and solutions. Read the 2PLM Media Sheet. Find out how to reach more than 30,000 customers.

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* Corporate * i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Q Investments, a private investment firm and one of i2's significant investors, has agreed to make a $100 million equity investment in i2. Details MAPICS, Inc. announced it acquired the MAGIK! Product Lifecycle Management solution. This solution has been well received by a number of MAPICS customers and is already integrated with MAPICS ERP for iSeries. Details Click the banner to visit Federation, or click here for more information i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that founder, chairman and CEO Sanjiv Sidhu has agreed to make a $20 million equity investment in the company. Details Proficiency announced it has received an additional $12 million in its third major round of financing. Details UGS PLM Solutions, Inc. announced that it expects to commence an offering under Rule 144A and Regulation S of $550 million aggregate principal amount of senior subordinated notes due 2012. Details * Financial * Access Commerce announced results for the first quarter of 2004. Sales for Access Commerce stand at Euro 2.16 M for the 1st quarter of 2004, as compared to Euro 2.63 M for the 1st quarter of 2003. Details Ariba, Inc. announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2004. Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2004 were $56.0 million, as compared to $59.3 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2003. Details Dassault Systemes reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. Total revenue was Euro 176.2 million, up 4%. Details EDS announced a first quarter 2004 net loss of $12 million versus a loss of $1.4 billion in last year's first quarter on an as-reported basis. In the first quarter, EDS reached an agreement with a private-equity consortium to sell UGS PLM Solutions for $2.05 billion in cash, a transaction expected to close in the second quarter. Accordingly, the unit is treated as a discontinued operation in first quarter 2004 results. Details Geometric Software Solutions announced financial results for the year ended March 31, 2004. Details Intergraph Corporation reported operating results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2004. For the quarter, Intergraph reported revenue of $133.0 million. Details MAPICS, Inc. announced results for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2004. Total revenue increased by 16% to $44.0 million from $38.1 million. Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced results for its third quarter ended April 3, 2004. For the third quarter ended April 3, 2004, total revenues were $29.0 million, compared to $24.0 million in the same period last year. Details Open Text Corporation announced financial results for its third quarter ended March 31, 2004. Total revenue for the third quarter was $80.2 million, up 82% from the same period last year. Details Selectica, Inc. announced results for the fourth fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2004. Revenue was $8.3 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, compared with $6.6 million for the same period in the previous year. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. Revenues for the first quarter of 2004 were $23.9 million, compared to $20.6 million for the first quarter of 2003, an increase of 16%. Details 3D Systems Corporation announced that revenues for the first quarter of 2004 grew 28.2% to $29.5 million from $23.0 million in the first quarter of 2003. Details * People * Affinnova, Inc. announced the appointment of Jonathan A. Kraft to its Executive Advisory Board. Details Avatech Solutions, Inc. announced that Robert La Blanc and Robert Post have been named to the Company's Board of Directors. Details Federation, Inc. announced that Mr. Ayal Bahary has joined Federation to lead its new product development initiatives. Details i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Ken Coulter has been named as Group Vice President within i2's Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. Details Spatial Corp. announced that Keith Mountain, formerly Vice President of Marketing for Spatial, has been selected as the President and Chief Operating Officer reporting to Mike Payne, CEO of Spatial. Details Verity Inc. announced the promotion of Mark Seamans to senior vice president of research and development and Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO). Details * Implementation * Agile Software Corporation announced that Intier Automotive Seating, a subgroup of Intier Automotive, deployed the Agile PLM solution in twelve weeks. Details Aras Corp. announced that Freudenberg SAS has selected Aras APQP Plus to automate its product development and launch processes in adherence with the automotive industry's Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process for program management. Details Aras Corp. announced that NEMAK has selected Aras for PLM and APQP process automation. Details Arena Solutions, Inc. announced Intuit Inc. as a new customer. Intuit is using Arena PLM to manage product data and change control associated with software packaging and other boxed software products. Details Autodesk, Inc. announced that QED, Micro Motors, Inc. and Joy Mining Machinery have adopted the latest version of Autodesk Vault to extend their data management capabilities. Details AVEVA announced that Fluor Corporation has purchased a three-year, worldwide license agreement for the entire suite of VANTAGE Plant Design and engineering software solutions. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that leading technology companies, including Fujitsu Network Technologies and S3 Graphics, have adopted the Cadence Incisive functional verification platform. Details Dassault Systemes announced that Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company will use their solutions as the design platform for the new Russian Regional Jet program. Details Delmia Corp. announced that Whirlpool Corporation is embarking upon digital manufacturing technology. Details Documentum announced that The Manitowoc Company has implemented the Documentum Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. Details Eurostep Limited announced it has been selected by BAE SYSTEMS to provide consultancy support in using and exploiting ISO 10303-239. Details Download AutoVue from Cimmetry Systems Invention Machine Corp. announced GKN Aerospace's purchase of Invention Machine's Goldfire Innovator. Details LMS International announced that ESA's Technical Centre ESTEC selected LMS Virtual.Lab Motion as the preferred solution for dynamic multibody simulation. Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced that Dymos, a business group of Hyundai Motors Group, has selected MatrixOne's Matrix10 environment to manage the design and development of its products. Details PTC announced that Smiths Aerospace has successfully deployed PTC Windchill solutions to 900 employees. Details Realization Technologies announced that eircom Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, is implementing Project Flow to faster execute new infrastructure programs through its development facilities. Details SolidWorks Corp. announced RENCO Encoders, Inc. has slashed costs and cut weeks out of its customers' product development cycles by using SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET service to create an interactive paperless catalog for its rotary optical encoders. Details SolidWorks Corp. announced Sweden's largest technical university, the Royal Institute of Technology, has purchased 500 licenses each of SolidWorks 3D mechanical design and COSMOSWorks design analysis software to train engineering students with the tools they will use in their careers. Details Spescom Software Inc. announced that the City of Las Vegas, Nevada has purchased an enterprise license of Spescom's eB platform valued at approximately $1 million. Details Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced that Korea - based electronic manufacturing solution provider Samsung Computers has implemented eMPower solutions from Tecnomatix Unicam, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd., in its first Chinese computer manufacturing facility. Details TRUEreq announced that Caltrex Inc. chose TRUEreq Software to manage their requirements management needs. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced Crown UCP, manufacturers of packaging products to the consumer marketing industry, has selected Solid Edge to create 3-D designs for its customers' drink bottles. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced that its Solid Edge CAD software has been selected for use by Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co. Details VISTAGY, Inc. announced the sale of FiberSIM software to the University of Delaware. Details * Developments * ABAQUS, Inc. announced the release of ABAQUS Student Edition. Details ABAQUS, Inc. announced the release of ABAQUS for CATIA V5, Version 1.1. Details Agile Software Corporation announced the general availability of Agile e5.1, developed specifically to meet the unique needs of manufacturers in complex engineering industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive and industrial products. Details Aras Corporation announced a new business application template called Aras APQP Plus. Details Bentley Systems, Inc. announced it unveiled MicroStation V8 2004 Edition, the latest release of the company's flagship product. Details Document Control Systems, Inc. announced the newest upgrade of its quality management system, MASTERControl FDA v7.3. Details Formtek Inc. announced localized versions of its Formtek Orion and Formtek Orion 5 Desktop Documents products for the Japanese market. Details GlobalSpec announced it has deepened its content, this time with searchable access to 40,000 materials properties datasheets. Details GlobalSpec announced it now provides access to mission-critical industry standards and military/federal specifications. Details Imaginestics announced it will integrate Purdue University's 3-D shape search technology. Details LATTICE3D announced the newest versions of its publishing applications. Details Seal Systems : The Digital Paper Factory Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the release of the PADS 2004 suites. Details Product Sight announced that its FindView engineering and manufacturing search engine has been certified for use with Autodesk Inventor Release 8. Details Spicer Corporation announced Imagenation 7.4 and Image a.X 7.4, the newest releases in its Universal Viewing suite. Details Synergis Software, a division of Synergis Technologies, Inc., announced that it is shipping version 5.2 of its engineering document management solution, Synergis Adept. Details Verity Inc. announced the immediate availability of version 3.8 of the Verity Response integrated online self-service solution. Details * Relationships * Access Commerce announced a VAR agreement with Business Connection, an SAP certified vertical solution reseller. Details Enovia Corp. announced the signing of an ENOVIA Component Application Architecture V5 (CAA V5) software partnership with Galaxia Inc., a provider of enterprise business process management and business process integration solutions. Details INCAT International announced that the organization has qualified as a Registered Service Provider (RSP) in North America for Network Appliance. Details i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Infineon has extended its partnership with i2 with the goal of increasing its level of supply chain efficiency. Details LightWork Design announced that the 2004 version of software from TopAEC integrates LightWorks support for RPC (Rich Photorealistic Content) technology. Details Modultek Oy and sales configurator developer Tacton Systems AB announced they have signed a co-operation agreement. Details PTC announced that ProductSpace Solutions, Inc. has become a Certified Services Provider in PTC's Channel Advantage Reseller Program supporting Windchill. Details * Other * Alibre Inc. announced its new Graduation Gift program through which graduating engineers can obtain a full commercial license of Alibre Design Basic at no charge. Details Applied Research Associates announced the formation of a practice focused on PLM with an initial emphasis on PTC Windchill technologies and generic PLM educational services. Details Dassault Systemes announced that MSC.Software has achieved the highest quality and performance requirements for its PLM education and training division, and has been awarded the first Certified Education Partner (CEP) designation in the Americas. Details PLM Interest Group : PLM Top Ten Documentum announced that it has successfully completed the third in a series of PDA Pharmaceutical Industry Software Supplier Quality Audits. Details UGS PLM Solutions announced it is providing a PLM software grant with a commercial value of $8.9 million to Utica Community Schools. Details

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